• Barack Obama: Dump These 8 Unsavory Allies
    Jan 2, 2013
    If Obama wants to bolster his legacy in his second term, he can and should get tough on some of the United States' most unsavory friends and allies. Here are eight leaders to start with.
  • The Monster and Monterrey
    May 26, 2011
    How could thriving Monterrey, the “Sultan of the North,” which only years earlier had been deemed one of the safest cities in Latin America, descend so quickly into chaos? If it could happen here, was anywhere in Mexico safe for long?
  • In the Name of the Law
    Nov 15, 2010
    While homicides in Tijuana declined from 2008 to 2009, they are once again on the rise, and on pace to match the city’s most violent year on record.
  • The Deadly Side of Tijuana
    Oct 24, 2010
    Federico Campbell offers a rare, uplifting story of a city’s emergence from the violence of Mexico’s drug war. Similarly, Mexico’s president, Felipe Calderón, has held up Tijuana as a model for his government’s counternarcotics strategy. But the numbers tell a different story.
  • Time to Speak up on Military Abuse in Mexico
    May 17, 2010
    President Obama has rightly recognized the United States' shared responsibility for confronting Mexico's violent drug cartels. But by failing to pressure Mexico to uphold the human rights requirements agreed to under the Merida Initiative, the Obama administration is shirking an important part of this responsibility.
  • Human Rights in Mexico's Drug War
    Aug 18, 2009
    The Aug. 13 editorial "Mexico's Drug War" asserted that it would be "counterproductive" for the United States to let human rights concerns hold up the release of funds to support Mexico's fight against drug cartels. In fact, the opposite is true.
  • Abortion lessons from Latin America
    Mar 21, 2006
    It's been a long time since the days of back-alley abortions in the U.S. Perhaps that's why South Dakota Gov. Michael Rounds signed into law a ban against abortion in his state, with one narrow exception: protecting the life of the pregnant woman. Perhaps Rounds, who was only 19 when Roe vs. Wade was decided in 1973, doesn't remember what it was like to live in a country where women had no right to a safe, legal abortion. But there is a place he could visit if he wants to refresh his memory: Latin America.
  • Immigrant Workers in the United States Meat and Poultry Industry
    Dec 14, 2005
    Immigrant workers make up the majority of the labor force in the U.S. meat and poultry industry. This submission offers the case of immigrant workers in the meat and poultry industry in the United States as evidence of failure by the U.S. government to assure respect for workers’ human rights.
  • Help Mexico Put 'Dirty War' to Rest
    Mar 3, 2004
    When Mexican President Vicente Fox visits President Bush's Texas ranch this week, the two will discuss a range of issues that revolve around law enforcement — illegal drug traffic, border security and migration. But there is another critical area of law enforcement where the United States should collaborate with Mexico: providing documents that could help prosecute crimes from Mexico's "dirty war" in the 1970s and early '80s.
  • Labor and the FTAA: A Cautionary Tale
    Nov 20, 2003
    When trade negotiators and street protestors in Miami this week debate the impact of a Free Trade Area of the Americas on workers throughout the region, they should consider its precursor, the North American Free Trade Agreement, as a cautionary tale.